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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer
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In recent years, Government legislation has forced the enactment of EU directive 92/27, relating to rules and regulations surrounding the design of medicines packaging in the pharmaceutical industry. The UK had been lagging behind the rest of Europe in this area for some time. The primary aim of the legislation was to ensure that patients take their medication in the right way and at the right time. Each dispensed pack should also carry the batch number and date of product expiry, thus ensuring that patients are always dispensed a viable product that can be easily traced back to its source of manufacture should a problem occur.
The legislation means that bulk packs of up to 1,000 tablets are no longer the main pack format for dispensing medicines into the community. The majority of packs should now only contain a maximum of four weeks' supply of medicine.
Pharmaceutical companies duly repacked their product ranges according to the guideline. In doing so, two main reactions were triggered. Firstly, perhaps for the first time, pharmacists became aware that when dispensing product from bulk packs, they had been heavily reliant on a number of prompts such as colour, feel, smell or size to aid them in the correct identification of product during the dispensing process. The new patient packs removed many or all of these prompts.
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